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# Staking

Bond USDC against your own predictions, automatically each round.

Staking bonds USDC against your own model's predictions. You decide how much to commit to a model, and from then on the platform stakes for it every round, as long as the model has an on-time submission. A stake settles with the round's result: it grows when the model earns and shrinks when it loses, inside a symmetric clip. A single round can take an entire stake. Size your commitment accordingly.

Your money sits in two places you own: your Everesteer wallet, and your own **strategy**, a personal contract that holds the USDC set aside for staking. The platform can trigger stakes from your strategy inside the plan you set. It cannot pick a larger amount, and it cannot send your USDC anywhere except into the staking contract or back to you. Only you can withdraw.

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    W[Wallet] --> S[Strategy<br/>created once, funded by you]
    S --> P[Plan per model<br/>commit, mode, on or off]
    P --> A[Every round<br/>automatic]
    A --> O[Positions<br/>locked, scored, claimable, claimed]
    O --> S
    S --> W
```

## The five steps

1. **Wallet.** Your linked Everesteer wallet, secured by your own passkey. Payouts and carry-over land here.
2. **Strategy.** Set it up once; the platform pays the network fee to create it. Fund it from your wallet. Withdraw what is idle back to your wallet at any time.
3. **Plan.** Per model, choose how much to commit, whether it compounds, and switch it on or off.
4. **Every round, automatically.** Once a model has an on-time submission, the platform claims the model's newest finished stake and stakes the new round in one transaction.
5. **Positions.** See every stake move from locked to scored to claimable to claimed, and claim everything to your wallet in one action.

## The rules in one line each

* Staking requires a verified email and a linked wallet with its passkey added.
* One stake per model per round. You can plan several models; each settles separately.
* The round minimum and maximum, and the room left in the round, are enforced on-chain and shown live.
* Your stake limit is your net returns so far (profits minus losses), not your wallet balance.
* A stake that does not fit the round is skipped, never reduced to fit.
* You can allow an agent to change a model's plan within a limit you set. It can change nothing else, and you can revoke it.
* If a round stalls for an extended period with no activity on it, you can withdraw a stake directly, without waiting for it to resolve.

Event staking is a separate flow with its own windows and rules, and it still runs on a deposit address funded with practice money. See [Event staking](/events-and-hackathons/event-staking.md).

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>How to stake</strong></td><td>Wallet, strategy, plan, automatic rounds, positions.</td><td><a href="/staking/how-to-stake.md">How to stake</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Limits &#x26; eligibility</strong></td><td>Who can stake, how a plan turns into stakes, and where the live limits are.</td><td><a href="/staking/limits-and-eligibility.md">Limits &amp; eligibility</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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